AMLO Freezes Ties With US Ambassador Who Criticized Reforms
- Mexican leader says he won’t ask US official to leave country
- Ambassador called judicial overhaul ‘major risk’ to democracy
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his relationship with US Ambassador Ken Salazar is “on pause” after criticism of his planned judicial overhaul, although he won’t ask the official to leave the country.
Salazar warned last week that Lopez Obrador’s efforts to pass a reform plan that would require popular election of federal judges posed a “major risk” to Mexico’s democracy and would make it easier for drug cartels to infiltrate the judiciary.